Victor Osimhen’s lone strike against Roma in Napoli’s away victory against Jose Mourinho’s side failed to win the Serie A Goal of the Month for October 2022 with AC Milan’s Brahim Diaz winning the gong.
Diaz’s goal scored by the AC Milan striker in last October 8’s match against Juventus was the most voted by the fans on the official Lega Serie A social channels.
The perfect personal action with which he scored the second Rossoneri goal against Juventus allowed Diaz to overcome in the voting the splendid conclusion from a tight angle by Osimhen in the match won by Napoli against Roma.
It was a tremendous effort from Osimhen that finally paid dividends in the 80th minute after he ran on to a pass from Matteo Politano, got the better of Smalling, and produced a swerving effort that left Rui Patricio stranded. Diaz was also presented with the crypto.com award for October.
On-form Napoli forward Osimhen was recently rated as the fourth best striker in Europe topflight leagues, scoring seven goals in eight league games after being out for five weeks due to an hamstring injury he copped during Napoli’s 4-1 thrashing of Liverpool in the Champion’s League in September
The former Lille hitman recently scored his first club hattrick against Sassuolo last weekend to become the fifth African to score a hat-trick Italian Serie A after Liberia’s George Weah (for AC Milan in 1998), Cameroon’s Patrick Mboma (Cagliari in 1999), Egypt’s Mohamed Salah (AS Roma in 2016) and Senegal’s Keita Balde (Lazio in 2017).